rag-pipelines

rag-pipelines is a skill for Claude Code from ils15/pantheon-legacy. It costs 23 tokens per session (872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG: giving an AI model relevant information by finding it in stored documents before generating an answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing document chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval methods, evaluation, and end-to-end RAG pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps build systems that use a document collection instead of relying only on the model's built-in knowledge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter.

Good fit Designing document chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval methods, evaluation, and end-to-end RAG pipelines.

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npx skills add ils15/pantheon-legacy --skill rag-pipelines
Clone the repo
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  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00087

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rag-pipelines scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

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.clinerules/skills/rag-pipelines/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

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RAG Pipelines

Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline design: chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval strategies, and evaluation.


Pipeline Architecture

Documents → Chunk → Embed → Store → Retrieve → Generate

Chunking Strategies

Strategy Best For Chunk Size
Fixed-size General docs 500-1000 tokens
Semantic Long-form content By paragraph/section
Code-aware Source code By function/class
Recursive Mixed content 1000 → 500 → 200 tokens
from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter

splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    chunk_size=1000,
    chunk_overlap=200,
    separators=["\n\n", "\n", ". ", " ", ""]
)

Embedding Models

Model Dimensions Speed Quality
text-embedding-3-small 1536 Fast Good
text-embedding-3-large 3072 Medium Best
bge-large-en 1024 Fast Good
e5-large-v2 1024 Fast Good

Vector Stores

Store Use Case Scaling
Pinecone Production, managed Auto-scales
Weaviate Production, self-hosted Horizontal
pgvector PostgreSQL shops Vertical
Chroma Prototyping, local Single-node
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma

vector_store = Chroma.from_documents(
    documents=chunks,
    embedding=embeddings,
    persist_directory="./chroma_db"
)

Retrieval Strategies

Similarity Search

retriever = vector_store.as_retriever(search_type="similarity", k=4)

MMR (Diversity-focused)

retriever = vector_store.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={"k": 4, "lambda_mult": 0.7}
)

Hybrid (BM25 + Semantic)

from langchain.retrievers import EnsembleRetriever

retriever = EnsembleRetriever(
    retrievers=[bm25_retriever, vector_retriever],
    weights=[0.3, 0.7]
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Changes

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 162 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A aa453b24ad20

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rag-pipelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository ils15/pantheon-legacy (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 872 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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